Chapter 8: Chinese milk vetch

Song Sancheng frowned: "Are you planning to plant rice in dozens of acres of land?"

Otherwise, you wouldn't need so much Chinese milk vetch for fertilization. A few dozen catties? One acre of land only uses five or six catties of seeds.

Now it's the end of February. Down jackets and big cotton-padded clothes are all on their bodies. After March, the temperature will rise quickly. As long as there is no late spring cold and the temperature difference between day and night is not so large, most crops can be planted.

If you plant Chinese milk vetch, you have to wait until the end of April or May to turn the soil again to plant other things... that's fine, it doesn't delay planting other things.

According to Song Sancheng's farming experience, May is the most suitable for planting in the countryside. Every year in March and April, there is late spring cold, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, so seeds will freeze to death if they sprout, which is not suitable.

It's just that he thought it was a waste of time to spend so much money at the beginning, and he felt uncomfortable in his heart.

Song Tan had thought about it for a long time last night, and at this moment, she was unhurried: "Plant rice in the two fields at the bottom, our family will eat it ourselves."

Those two pieces of land add up to three or four acres. Now the yield of rice is high, enough for the family to eat, and they can send some to relatives and friends.

Song Tan won't consider planting more. Planting rice is hard work, so she won't plant more.

Raising fish in rice paddies can also be tried.

"Plant Chinese milk vetch in the other fields first to fertilize them. When it gets warmer, I'll plant vegetables."

Song Sancheng didn't object to this: "Planting vegetables is good, planting vegetables is easy to sell. When the time comes, ride a tricycle to the street and you can sell them." The cost is low, the harvest is fast, and it's much easier than planting rice.

Song Tan laughed: "Yes, that's what I plan to do." Not really. How many people are there in town?

If she wants to go, she'll go to the city.

Actually, Song Tan recalled her work last night and had other ideas—nowadays, people love to watch pastoral videos, which are stress-relieving and peaceful, but there are so many villages, how can she quickly grab eyeballs?

Either be beautiful, or be unique.

This Yunqiao Village of her hometown is really plain.

Since that's the case, she has to put effort into "beauty."

Chinese milk vetch has a short growth cycle, is sturdy and easy to plant, and the flowers are beautiful enough. When the time comes, she will film a video, and the first shot will rely on the rolling purple Chinese milk vetch flower fields to attract traffic.

Otherwise, there are so many fields and vegetables, when will they become boutique products?

At the end of February, there were not many people in the agricultural supply store. Song Tan asked for 70 catties of Chinese milk vetch seeds, and the boss was also quite surprised:

"How much land are you planting? Five catties per acre is enough for original seeds, and ten catties for medicated seeds. The price is the same, 10 yuan a catty."

Original seeds are native seeds that haven't been treated.

Medicated seeds are seeds wrapped in medicine to prevent insects and diseases, with good resistance.

Song Tan thought that she couldn't have spent a hundred years planting spiritual herbs in vain, and she still had some means to repel insects, so she made a choice decisively:

"I want original seeds!"

Besides Chinese milk vetch, other seeds must also be bought, such as bok choy with the shortest growth cycle, and peppers, eggplants, and cucumbers that need to be raised in seedlings... all must be bought.

The seeds sold locally might not be as complete as those online, but for beginners, they have the best adaptability. So when Song Tan finished buying, over 1,000 yuan was spent, and Song Sancheng's heart was twitching.

Song Tan was still asking!

"Do you have rice seeds? I want ones with good taste."

The boss looked: "Yes, this long-grain fragrant rice, the taste is incredible. You can't even buy it for 10 yuan a catty. It's just that the yield is low, with an acre yield of only 800 or 1,000 catties."

Song Tan couldn't help but sigh—technology is productivity!

In the Cultivation World, those spiritual grains without hybrid optimization, even if she spent spiritual energy, would only yield 500 or 600 catties per acre.

"How do you sell it?"

The boss didn't hesitate: "This seed is expensive, 80 yuan a catty, and you need two catties per acre."

Eight catties of seeds for four acres of land, how expensive can it be? Thinking of the fragrant rice without impurities, Song Tan's saliva was about to come out:

"I want it!"

2,000 yuan was spent on seeds. Song Sancheng took a puff of his cigarette and said earnestly:

"Tan Tan, buy things slowly, don't worry. Plowing the land will also be expensive later, you have to prepare a lot of money."

That plowing machine needs to be equipped with plows and rakes of different depths. If you buy them, these have to be equipped separately. They are renting, so they don't have this trouble.

But their fields haven't been plowed for many years, and the weeds and miscellaneous trees have to be cleaned up by people, which costs at least 150 a day per person. Seven fields, if finished in one day, will take over ten people, and another 2,000 yuan will be gone.

If you don't invite people, it will delay time and affect their farming.

Then you have to burn a fire in the field before you can plow the land. After turning and drying for two days, you can plant.

Don't look at it as machine work. The fields here can only be deeply plowed for five acres a day. Fifteen acres will take three days, 1,500 yuan.

Later, there are fertilizers and pesticides... Song Sancheng thought of the money spent, and felt that his daughter was spending too much!

"You plant so many vegetables, do you need to build a greenhouse for raising seedlings? Didn't you say you want to invite people to dig mountains? What do you plan to do on the mountains?"

After calculating this, Song Tan was also a bit numb.

Before starting work, a plan for 10,000 yuan was gone.

Song Tan decided decisively: "Dad, don't dig the mountains first. I plan to plant black fungus and silver fungus on the mountains. I'll use the Quercus trees on our mountains to plant the fungus, so I don't need to tidy them up."

They have many Quercus trees locally, also called Mali trees. This kind of wood is sturdy and durable for burning. Now the firewood they use for heating at home is this kind.

Of course, it is also a good material for planting black fungus and silver fungus.

Of course, now everyone uses fungus bags to plant directly. This method hasn't appeared for many years. Along with it, the price of fungus grown on trees has risen.

Song Tan vaguely remembered that when she was a child, her family had planted black fungus and silver fungus this way.

As a result, every household planted it, but the promised buyers didn't come, and in the end, they could only dry them and store them at home, eating them for several years.

Song Sancheng was numb.

—Planting black fungus and silver fungus?

Doesn't that mean cutting down trees and processing the trunks? Cut down the trunks of suitable thickness, punch holes one by one on them, and then fill them with fungus seeds...

Because it takes up space and has low yield, it has been slowly eliminated by fungus bags. But what Tan Tan said makes sense. Now it's all about pure natural pollution-free. Looking at the fungus bags, regardless of whether there is pollution or not, it just tastes less than the ones grown on trees.

Song Sancheng sighed.

But thinking about it—forget it, anyway, there are many Quercus trees planted, and they are crowded on several mountains, so cutting some is fine.

It's better than spending money outside.

Spend it, spend it, once the money is spent, you won't see it!

He said in a muffled voice: "I'll go ask the seller of fungus seeds."

Song Tan looked at her dad, and she felt guilty herself—because she also bought a computer and several accessories online last night to ensure the efficiency of post-editing, which cost 8,000.

However, it's already spent.

Song Tan struck while the iron was hot: "Dad, tidy up the pigsty at the door, let's raise three or four pigs this year."

If the vegetables are delicious, the meat must keep up!

Song Sancheng was about to jump up: "You have so much work, do you want to tire me and your mom to death!"

Thinking that pork is quite expensive now, he was actually quite moved, so he softened his face:

"We can't build a pigsty at the door now. The village says it affects the aesthetics, and the firewood shed must be tidy."

【Regarding cutting down trees, there are many mountains in the countryside, and every household has them. The tacit understanding of everyone is that if you cut them, you have to plant them, so don't worry about cutting them all.】

【Regarding planting fungi in the forest, there is scientific guidance, it's stable. The silver fungus grown on logs we eat now is planted this way, but the setting here is that there are no logs, so local trees are used instead.】

【Regarding plant pictures, I was afraid you would find it troublesome, so I didn't put eggs. Later, everyone can actively post pictures in the "Chapter Talk." Those interested can click to see, those not interested can just not look, it won't affect reading.】

【If you have other questions, just ask in the comment section. I will give explanations for those I can answer. I will put them in the chapters during the free period, and try to put them in the author's notes later so as not to take up word count.】 ===== CHAPTER 9 =====